I think the ball python market has went through a correction and had to adjust prices due to the recession.

A lot of people lost their jobs and had to sell their collection. People also got in thinking it would be an instant additional income stream, but nobody told them it would take 2 years before their females would be big enough to breed and in the mean time you are stuck with the care bill that comes out of your day job.

I think once a strong recovery in the economy takes place and we can actually start to see unemployment numbers go down demand will once again out strip supply as people start to get back into the hobby.

Also today we have more people than ever doing reptile education programs for kids. This is creating a future generation that is more aware of the various pets available to them. When I got out of High School in 1993 only weirdo people would have snakes as pets, now days it has started to become more acceptible.

Overall I see a huge pick up once as a nation we can get our economy expanding at about a 4% rate or better again.